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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://ier.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ba9eaa8efed32fc791ea26581&id=a99fe502e4&e=d05416d128"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=830 height=138 id="Picture_x0020_20" src="cid:image001.png@01CBC3BB.91549010" alt="Institute of Employment Rights"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=878 style='width:658.5pt'><tr style='height:473.05pt'><td width=418 valign=top style='width:313.45pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:473.05pt'><h1 style='background:white'><span lang=EN>Cable's Employers' Charter incites bosses to take advantage of workers' vulnerability<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:3.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:navy'> </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'><img border=0 width=71 height=100 id="Picture_x0020_0" src="cid:image003.png@01CBB258.60A603F0" alt="Keith ewing 2007.bmp"></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'>Without apparent irony, Vince Cable announced two new steps in the ConDem’s <i>comprehensive review of employment laws.</i> The first, proposals for settling <a href="http://www.bis.gov.uk/Consultations/resolving-workplace-disputes?cat=open">workplace disputes</a>. The second the publication of an <a href="http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1086685881&type=ONEOFFPAGE&furlname=employerscharter&furlparam=employerscharter&ref=&domain=www.businesslink.gov.uk">Employers’ Charter</a>. No prizes for guessing how the government thinks workplace disputes should be settled! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t202" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="202" path="m,l,21600r21600,l21600,xe">
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<![if !mso]><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr><td><![endif]><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><![if !mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]></v:textbox>
</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><span style='mso-ignore:vglayout;position:absolute;z-index:251658240;margin-left:-5px;margin-top:179px;width:838px;height:21px'><img width=838 height=21 src="cid:image004.png@01CBC3BC.A47881A0" v:shapes="_x0000_s1026"></span><![endif]><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'>Cable claims <b>that employment protections are all one way – towards the employee</b>! In a swift response to Cable’s ludicrous suggestions and nasty proposals <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/node/555">IER President Keith Ewing</a> exposes the myth that employers are suffering under over-burdensome, worker-friendly laws and highlights recent international condemnations of the UK’s abysmal labour standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1027" type="#_x0000_t202" style='position:absolute;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-top:15.4pt;width:614.25pt;height:111.4pt;z-index:251659264' /><![endif]--><![if !vml]><span style='mso-ignore:vglayout'><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 align=left><tr><td width=5 height=20></td></tr><tr><td></td><td width=825 height=154 bgcolor=white style='border:.75pt solid black;vertical-align:top;background:white'><![endif]><![if !mso]><span style='position:absolute;mso-ignore:vglayout;z-index:251659264'><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr><td><![endif]><div v:shape="_x0000_s1027" style='padding:4.35pt 7.95pt 4.35pt 7.95pt' class=shape><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:36.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Watch this Webspace</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Big plans are ahead for the IER’s website. From April 2011 onwards IER subscribers will be able to download electronic versions of our publications – including past publications now out of print. By logging in with a personalised password, subscribers will have access to parts of the website other people cannot reach. To ensure you get full access to our site, take out a subscription <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/node/154">now</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>. For those not inclined to go electric, hard copy books will still be circulated to subscribers.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><![if !mso]></td></tr></table></span><![endif]><![if !mso & !vml]> <![endif]><![if !vml]></td></tr></table></span><![endif]><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br style='mso-ignore:vglayout' clear=ALL><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#73110E'>.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=460 valign=top style='width:345.05pt;border:none;border-left:dashed #CCCCCC 1.0pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:473.05pt'><h1 style='margin-top:0cm'><o:p> </o:p></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm'><span class=A5><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm'><span class=A5><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#365F91'>Employers are using the recession to ride </span></span><o:p></o:p></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm'><span class=A5><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#365F91'>roughshod over workers’ rights, but </span></span><o:p></o:p></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm'><span class=A5><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#365F91'>we can fight back and resist.</span></span><o:p></o:p></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'>In a second article published this week, <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/node/563">Keith Ewing</a> outlines a few examples of employer bad behavior, which he says reminds him of some of the worst practices of the 1980s. Employers using and abusing redundancy procedures to undermine the terms and conditions of workers –issuing inferior contracts on a take-it-or-leave-it basis under the 90 days notice provisions - offer just one example of bad employer practices. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'>Keith looks at various options for challenging such abusive employer behavior. As he says: “...at a time when trade unionists are being thrown into battle with bows and arrows against tanks, any weapon to support guerrilla campaigns is to be embraced”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>